Genre

What is it?
It is a way of classifying films into similar categories. It makes it easy for audiences to choose what film they want to watch, for example if they want to be scared they would choose a horror. It also means that the produces of the film will know who the film will appear to so can market is as such instead of having to watch the whole film. The audience have expectations of films because of it's genre.

Sub genres
When a film producer or writer wants to create something new of different then they may make a new genre or a spin off from the original genre. These are called sub genres. An example of this is the film Lord of the Rings, this is a sci-fi fantasy action. Sub genres can appeal to many people as they contain things that a lot of people like or they can have the opposite effect, they may only appeal to a small number of people that like that kind of thing.

How this influenced my genre choice:
After researching what genre is I decided that I should go for one of the main genres such as comedy or thriller as more sucsessful films have been made so I have more films to look at for inspiration .